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Whole Body Health
For several months you have watched the unfolding of "The Treatment" by the news media in its attempt to make Congressman Ron Paul go away. He continues to frustrate their efforts.
The first stage of "The Treatment" is to just simply ignore any substantial candidate who is not "anointed" by the powers behind the scenes. Anyone who ever ran for political office wearing any label other than "Republican" or "Democrat" has experienced stage one, and few ever got beyond it. (A visitor from Mars can see in one day that the anointed Republican is Rudy Giuliani and the anointed Democrat is Hillary Clinton.)
Hard as the talking heads of the propaganda machine tried, they just couldn't ignore Dr. Paul for long without continuing to make themselves look foolish. First of all, even though he attempted a shot at the presidency as the Libertarian Party's candidate two decades ago, he has been a 10-term Republican congressman who won the early TV debates this year with simple logic, pointing out that government must obey the law, too, and the highest law of the land is the Constitution that nearly every politician not only ignores today but has never read in the first place.
So when this bona fide candidate was cleverly excluded from the Iowa debates, he showed up anyway, rented the room next door and put on a campaign rally that drew twice as many as the paltry 500 attending in the debate hall.
Therefore, a higher level of "The Treatment" was necessitated around mid-2007, and this second stage in discrediting a candidate was displayed: that of poking fun in an attempt to make the candidate look foolish by quoting out of context or putting whole new pieces of deceptive text in his mouth that he never said in the first place.
However, when behavior sinks to a level that might provoke lesser men into swinging a punch or at least yelling a retaliatory, mindless rebuttal, Dr. Paul does not weaken. When the CNN interviewer told him that many people considered him "flaky," Ron just used her own words to draw some examples of the "flaky" manner in which those in charge today are handling things in Washington.
On Face the Nation in early November, CBS host Bob Schieffer said, "You are anti-war, anti-abortion, anti-drug administration, anti-Medicare, anti-income tax, anti- U.N., anti-Federal Reserve and World Bank. What else do you think government should do besides deliver the mail?"
Composed and alert under fire, Paul calmly replied that in order to be "anti" anything, you have to be "pro" something else, and pointed out, "I am pro-peace, prolife, pro-liberty, pro-hard money, and pro-states rights."
"We don't like $100 oil?" Paul asked and then answered, "We'll have $200 oil if we bomb Iran."
In June, when Paul was explaining to the TV debates audience the lack of congressional authorization of the Iraqi war and all those preceding it since WWII and the need to get out of there, someone behind the curtain at Fox News opened up Rudy Giuliani's microphone and allowed the former New York mayor to rudely cackle like a magpie. Then someone in charge of the computer buttons split the TV screen so the world could see Rudy childishly laughing while Paul made his points. A little later, host Sean Hannity treated Dr. Paul with disdain and a total lack of respect in the post-debate interview.
This was stage two at its best, and while many of his supporters sizzled and seethed at the two obviously pre-planned and well-organized cheap shots, Dr. Paul maintained his cool.
This comes from experience. In 1988, talk show host Morton Downey Jr. stacked his audience with some of the great unwashed hippies who, along with the discourteous host, hooted derisively (much in the fashion of today's Jerry Springer Show) until Paul succumbed to the bait and began to shout back. His microphone's volume was then turned down and that of the others was turned up—a common trick of the insiders—in order to prevent anyone from hearing anything he said over the cacophony.
Downey was the last to ever lure Dr. Paul into that trap, and the unfortunate experience must have bothered the candidate for a long time. Watching him today, we can readily see that he has learned the entrapment lesson well.
The congressman is a seasoned debater who, in addition to being unflappable, keeps up to date on every issue. Unlike the current president, he will never be one who will require an earpiece in order to be fed answers to questions, because those who tell the truth don't have to memorize a script.
This may be the most likely reason that Paul's establishment adversaries have found it necessary to turn up the heat to stage three. His raising of over $4 million in one day on the Internet could not be ignored, and his innate ability to turn their own words against them has only helped him gain ground, not lose it.
The time for spreading the lies has arrived. Some newspapers are printing "the extensive and well documented" facts that Paul is "dangerous" and "has ties to the neo-Nazis."
There was never any further evidence, however, of the alleged documentation, but we can be sure that more allegations will surface.
"Liberal-turned-conservative" and talk radio host Michael Medved looks over Paul's supporters and finds "an imposing collection of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, Holocaust deniers, 9/11 ‘truthers' and other paranoid and discredited conspiracists."
He has not named any, but even if this is true, "so what?"
Would the other
candidates turn down any voter?
Meanwhile, Glenn Beck, another Sean Hannity/Rush Limbaugh sound-alike, is saying that Ron Paul and his supporters are "a domestic enemy" and "terrorists." Beck claims that since the $4.2 million was raised on November 5—and they had to go back only 400 years to come up with this gem—and it is the same day when a revolutionist named Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament in England, Ron Paul must be some kind of terrorist, too. Beck's hard evidence for his case is even more irrational: the Paul backers referred to their fund raising project on the Internet as a "money bomb."
The Paul camp is planning another "money bomb" blast for December 16, in celebration of the 1773 Boston Tea Party. We can't wait to hear the next foolish allegation regurgitated by the media following this one-day event.
Get used to it. The attack has just begun. The fourth stage is known as "dirty tricks"—likely to begin in January where Ron Paul is hopeful of shocking them again in the New Hampshire primary.
See more from Pat Shannan at patshannan.com.
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DALLAS, Texas—Tommy Cryer left a deep impression on attendees
of a recent conference by pointing out with wit, insight and humility
that
successfully slaying the federal
income tax will take a sustained, unified effort—not the
usual scenario in which each tax resister fights "the beast"
individually, which produces too many martyrs and not enough heroes
who actually win the fight.
"We've been sending people into the cave one at a time for 30 years," he remarked, "and look at how many lives it has wrecked."
However, Cryer, a gutsy attorney from Shreveport, Louisiana, actually took on the income tax "beast" and won his July 2007 court case; hence the anticipation felt by those wanting to hear his story the evening of Nov. 17 during the Justice, Peace & Freedom Conference co-sponsored by Freedom Law School, American Free Press and others.
FLS is well-known for teaching citizens about financial betterment, financial privacy and how to fight an income tax system that's said to be contrary to the Constitution and wrongly applied to the compensation (salaries, wages, fees, etc.) of working Americans—without any known written law behind it. So, Cryer's remarks were a great fit for the event.
Cryer, who challenged the government for years on the legality of filing federal income taxes, was acquitted on charges he failed to file returns. In July, a federal jury unanimously found Cryer not guilty on two misdemeanor counts of failure to file. And the prosecution dismissed two felony charges of tax evasion prior to trial, as The Shreveport Times reported in a local story that evidently did not "go national."
"The court could not find a law that makes me liable or makes my revenues taxable," Cryer told the Times. "The Supreme Court has ruled that the government cannot impose an income tax on anything but profits and gains. When you work for someone, you give your service and labor in exchange for money, so everything you make is not profit or gain. You put something into it."
The indictment alleged he evaded payment of several thousand dollars in income taxes during 2000 and 2001. But that's history.
"It's not my victory, it's our victory," he reflected at his Dallas speech, while thanking those who supported him along the way. "I owe you, the tax honesty community, a debt that I'll never be able to repay for the rest of my life."
The basic idea of a permanent income tax to rope the masses appeared as one of the 10 planks of the 1848 Communist Manifesto. The federal income tax was "adopted" by Congress in 1913 via the 16th Amendment to the Constitution—the same year that the private, megamonopolistic Federal Reserve System was created and empowered with the monetary powers reserved to Congress by the Constitution. But the Federal Reserve's creators didn't even bother to amend the Constitution.
Cryer said this income tax system is conceivably worse than conventional slavery.
"The only difference between a slave and an ignorant man is that the slave feels his chains," he said. His Mark Twain-style remarks were met with considerable applause.
Cryer, while noting how shocked he was early this year when he realized how "fragmented" the tax honesty movement has become, strongly urged the different organizations and individuals to take a step back and take stock when dealing with such a treacherous issue.
"In the cave, the beast defines reality—but outside the cave, we define reality," he noted, while warning that the Internal Revenue Service is planting "dummy information" to discredit the tax honesty movement. Therefore, he said those in the movement need to be careful what they believe and should "study themselves" as least as hard as they study IRS regulations.
He said tax honesty people need to stop cobbling together fragments of the law and sloppily assembled facts before marching off to battle the beast unprepared while wrongly assuming they are prepared. Better preparation with a unified effort makes it harder for "the beast" to single any one person out and send them to debtor's prison, as Cryer sees it.
A former Army captain, Cryer, 58, reflected: "This victory of mine in July—oh, it was so sweet—was ours, not mine."
Cryer's "motion to dismiss" filed prior to his acquittal showed that the law, as it is written, does not make him liable nor tax his revenue from his law practice. His motion took another bold step, however, revealing that the income tax, as applied to wages, salaries and fees personally earned, is unconstitutional, citing four separate grounds for the unconstitutionality of the law as to almost every citizen's revenue that is personally earned.
Ironically, Cryer's journey to facing the IRS in court began when a client approached him for legal help several years ago, arguing that the income tax was a fraud. Cryer strongly rejected that position at the time. But he researched the matter for more than two years, back to the very foundation of the nation, finally determining that the client was basically correct. Cryer then decided to apply what he had learned—to himself.
In his Dallas speech, Cryer stressed that each individual must assess if they're ready for this fight. "If you're not, leave it to somebody who is."
But he tempered that statement by stressing the sheer importance of spreading the word even when it's not time to fight.
"Infect thousands with the truth," he urged. "Let them know this is not a frivolous but a legitimate issue with the income tax."
He likened the fight against the income tax to the civil rights and abolitionist movements, in the sense that these movements had four crucial steps: circulating sound information, which leads to consensus, which leads to growing public awareness, which culminates in proper political action.
"No more marching in place," he said. "We must march forward. Real change comes when people care most for each other's right—not me, mine. What you need to do is start using the truth—the weapon of mass instruction—to take the will to fight away from the enemy."
As Cryer sees it, America's War of Independence is over but the actual revolution has just begun and keeps going every generation.
"Save the Constitution and the Republic it promised," he admonished his listeners, who were moved by his heartfelt oratory. Recalling his near-fatal 1995 heart attack, he said he wasn't afraid to die then. But now he is afraid. He feels God told him to forge ahead and win—not just "try"—yet he says he's afraid to die and have to face the nation's founders in heaven with the country still in dire straits.
HELPFUL CONTACTS
Cryer suggested that those wanting more information should look into the Freedom Above Fortune (freedomabovefortune.com) organization founded by Joe Banister, who's a former IRS agent-turned-tax protester; or look into Freedom Law School (livefreenow.org); or the Free Enterprise Society (freeenterprisesociety.com), whose founder, Steve Hempfling, also spoke at the Dallas conference on income tax matters, as did successful IRS challenger Robert Lawrence and several others. Freedom Law School can be reached at (760) 868-4271; or write to:
FLS, 9582 Buttemere Road, Phelan, CA, 92371. Other helpful information is posted at truthattack.org and liefreezone.com.
AFP's Mark Anderson can be reached at truthhound2@yahoo.com.
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CONGRESSMEN WHO LIVE FRUGALLY are an endangered species. There is always plenty of money for traveling the world in high style while living a life of luxury and their pockets bulge.
The $165,200 salary is just the beginning. Only Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) returns an unused portion of his expense money to the federal treasury.
Perks range from the glamorous to the mundane. They have free parking at Washington Reagan National Airport—just steps from their favorite terminal. The average Joe takes the subway or a cab to the airport.
Parking even at the far-off spaces served by shuttle buses costs more than a cab unless you take a cab for many miles to fly out of Washington. Average Joe has to reserve just one flight and be there two hours in advance and may still be bumped because airlines overbook. Your congressman can book three flights and take the one that best suits his convenience.
He doesn't have to bother canceling the other two reservations, although he has a highly paid staff to handle such petty details for him. If he arrives seconds before take-off, average Joe gets bumped and the congressman gets seated.
Congress gives itself the finest medical care, financed by taxpayers. When the congressman has a bellyache (instead of giving one to taxpayers) he goes to Walter Reed for the finest care available. He enjoys huge retirement benefits in addition to Social Security—if he hangs around long enough, he can get a $200,000 pension.
But don't expect him to struggle living within his $165,200 salary—there's money everywhere. He can transfer $75,000 from his allotment for "office staff " to "expenses." Despite allegedly new House "travel restrictions" drawn up to calm voter outrage, lawmakers accepted free trips worth nearly $1.9 million in the first eight months of 2007—more than all of 2006, records show. U.S. ambassadors abroad are provided funds to entertain visiting congressmen.
"There's a realization that these trips and meals are getting extra scrutiny," Meredith McGehee of the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, told USA Today.
"That will last for awhile, but we know it won't last forever. The ethos of politics is, ‘what can we get away with?'"
To duck limitations on lobbyists currying favor with congressmen by financing extended luxury trips, nonprofit groups with ties to lobbyists have stepped in. The Leaders Project paid $1,993 to send Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) to an event in Florida on U.S.-India relations. The group's founder is William Cohen, a former Defense secretary whose lobbying firm represents Defense contractors. The Club for Growth spent $32,242 to bring 10 GOP lawmakers to its convention in Florida that included a four-hour cruise on a 170-foot yacht.
All this fun kept congressmen too busy to get their work done on time, which is why your tax refund check will be late this year. Congress is going to put a "patch" on the alternative minimum tax so it does not reach down and punish the middle class when it was intended to assure that the rich will pay at least something.
But they left for their Thanksgiving recess without acting. Congress will take up the issue on its return in December. But the IRS said it would take 10 weeks to readjust its computers to account for the changes. So average Joe will wait more than two months longer to get his refund check.
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The 16 most important organs within the U.S. intelligence released declassified portions of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) containing two explosive points:
"We judge that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.…We assess with moderate confidence Tehran has not restarted its nuclear weapons program as of mid-2007.…
This report is a huge contradiction to everything that the Bush administration and the Jewish support groups that pull his strings have been saying for the last several years with regard to Iran's nuclear weapons program. Immediately following 9-11, Bush labeled Iran as part of the "axis of evil" and warned that any day America would go up in a mushroom cloud. On an almost hourly basis since then, the world has been subjected to a seemingly inexhaustible amount of propaganda, from Bushites on the neocon talk radio circuit, warlords in Israel's Knesset and all the various operatives working for Jewish interests here in the U.S., including Norman Podhoretz, Daniel Pipes, Michael Ledeen et al.
Now however, sanity seems to have gotten hold of at least a few in the intelligence community who recognize that the United States stands at the abyss and is faced with its own extinction in the event that the present Zionist-engineered war widens to include Iran.
The NIE is not just some "piece of paper," as Bush is alleged to have said about the Constitution. According to the CIA (the organization charged with most of the nation's intelligence analysis) the NIE is the most authoritative written judgment concerning a particular national security issue. Unlike current intelligence papers that describe the present, most NIEs forecast future developments and address their implications for the United States in terms of military, technological, economic and political trends.
The departments of Justice and Treasury, the National Security Agency and the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency contribute to the reports. It is the best that America's best is capable of producing on actionable intelligence.
Bush, like a gambler who refuses to believe that his pair of kings can not beat his opponent's royal flush, is not backing down. Having pulled a skunk out of the magic hat rather than a rabbit, his response is in effect that "Although Iran halted her program in 2003, that doesn't mean she couldn't start it back up again."
Vice President Dick Cheney (who was reported trying to suppress the release of the NIE as far back as six months ago) and his people were quiet as church mice.
Both in Israel and the U.S., the blind supporters of the Jewish state and her mad agenda are howling with a mixture of panic and outrage.
From official circles such as Prime Minister Olmert and Defense Minister Barak, Israel has done everything except declare the report the product of a group of incompetent nincompoops. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (despite her being quoted off-the-record recently saying that Iranian nuclear weapons do not pose an existential threat to Israel and that Olmert "exaggerated" the danger posed by an Iranian nuclear bomb) said of the NIE:
"The world cannot accept a nuclear Iran.…Tehran's adamant pursuit of a nuclear weapon has been proven and it is clear to all that it continues with its efforts to obtain this technology."
In America, Israel and her supporters are doing everything except rend their robes in the same way the High Priest Caiaphas did before sentencing Jesus of Nazareth to die for opposing the Jewish supremacist agenda in His own day. They are using all the familiar charges of "appeasement" and "backing down from the duty of protecting the Jewish people" from annihilation at the hands of "the new Hitler," Ahmadinejad.
The one thing they have not done yet is to allege the NIE's analysis is all the result of "Islamo-Fascist" agents and spies who have penetrated America's most sensitive intelligence agencies.
But these same intelligence agencies played an instrumental part in providing George Bush and his war machine with the necessary pretext for invading Iraq. The best answer is survival. The individuals and agencies charged with doing America's intelligence work are privy to information that the most curious Americans could only dream of acquiring. They know well the unprecedented and irreversible disaster that will take place in the event America widens this war to include Iran. They see a nuclear armed Russia sitting next door and the fact that Putin and his "United Russia" party (elected with an overwhelming majority the day before the NIE was released) are wildly popular among the Russian people and will not be pushed around by America and Israel.
The authors of the NIE see a potential mutiny brewing in the U.S. military. One sign is a remark by Adm. William Fallon (commander of all forces in the Middle East tasked with any Iranian attack) that an attack on Iran would not take place under his watch. They see the dollar losing over 35% of its value since the war in Iraq began, and this is tied directly to world opinion of America's increasing political instability.
The authors of the NIE are trying to prevent the last nail from being hammered into America's coffin with an attack on Iran by those intent upon destroying what was the bastion of freedom and prosperity. Fear of losing one's job does not begin to compare with the existential threat that would ensue from the future madness envisioned by the fanatical supporters of Zionism and thus they are willing to risk wrestling with a lion if it is the only chance of surviving the ordeal.
However, "It ain't over till it's over." The madmen who are intent upon waging war against a billion and a half people in the Muslim world will not be deterred by a few inconvenient words written on a few pages by a few men working for a few intelligence agencies. The neocons who nurse an irrational fanaticism when it comes to Israel have demonstrated over and over that they will not be deterred.
What they wanted but were unable to achieve 40 years ago when they attacked (but failed to sink) the USS Liberty, they were able to achieve on Sept. 11, 2001, which was to bring America into Israel's wars. Right now they have come closer to achieving what they have wanted these last 2,000 years and counting—worldwide domination—than ever before in history. They are desperate, and desperate men do desperate things.
Mark Glenn is a former schoolteacher fluent in several languages. His book, No Beauty in the Beast: Israel Without Her Mascara, can be ordered from TBR BOOK CLUB (call toll free 1-877-773-9077 to charge to Visa or MasterCard) for $28 ppd. See more from Glenn at crescentandcross.com
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Senate confirmation of Michael Sullivan as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been put on hold amid controversy over the agency's treatment of gun dealers. Sullivan's confirmation was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"Sen. Larry Craig put on hold his confirmation," said Ryan Horsley, the family owner-operator of Red's Trading Post in Twin Falls, Idaho, a popular fourth-generation gun store that has been under the heel of BATFE audits. Bureaucrats have nitpicked the store's few and minor clerical errors in its files while draining its funds via legal expenses.
This store is one of many that fits into a pattern of BATFE behavior that strongly suggests the war of attrition against Red's is part of a larger agenda to close down firearms sellers—and indirectly, manufacturers—by threatening to withdraw sellers' federal firearms licenses over so-called "willful" clerical errors.
"Since 2002, 85% of American firearm manufacturers have been forced to close their doors," said Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.). Shooting Sports Retailer Magazine says the number of revocations of licenses is up nearly six times from 2001-2006.
And the number of gun dealers in America has dropped by 190,726 since 1994 according to a new study by the Violence Policy Center in Washington. The study found "that the number of Type 1 federal firearms licenses (FFLs) plummeted 78%: from 245,628 in 1994 to 54,902 in 2005. (The Type 1 FFL is the basic federal license required to sell guns in America.)
Sullivan already is acting head of the BATFE but wants the full director job. Because his confirmation by the Senate has yet to take place, Horsley is sounding the alarm. He believes Sullivan's background and outlook spell big trouble, including a report in Boston Magazine which said Sullivan is leaving behind his job in the U.S. attorney's office in Massachusetts with things in disarray: sloppy legal briefs; missed deadlines and patronage.
Sullivan is described by the magazine as "moonlighting" by working as acting BATFE director while also working as a U.S. attorney.
Gun Owners of America went on record against the appointment, though the National Rifle Association allegedly has not been as aggressive and is seen by some as lukewarm about this matter.
The 19 members of the Judiciary Committee include Sam Brownback, a Kansas Republican; and Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer of New York, Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and Dianne Feinstein of California. These Democrats are known as three of the most anti-gun in all the Senate. Presidential candidate Joe Biden (D-Del.) also is on the committee.
"Please get the word out. There have been well over a thousand letters written to senators to deny [Sullivan's] confirmation," Horsley said in an email news bulletin. (The Capitol switchboard to contact any senator or House member by name is 202-224-3121.) Go to redstradingpost.com online for more information.
AFP corresponding editor Mark Anderson can be reached via email at truthhound2@yahoo.com
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Some 200 Christian Zionist leaders, representing churches spread throughout America, Europe, Africa and Asia, gathered in Israelís Knesset to "beg forgiveness" for 2,000 years of "Christian persecution" of Jews.
The well publicized ceremony took place under the auspices of the "Knesset Christian Allies Caucus," just one of a growing number of partnerships springing up in recent years between organized Jewish and Christian Zionist groups for the purpose of funneling Christian money and political support toward Israel. Part of the statement reads as follows:
"On behalf of millions of Christians, we repent before you for crimes committed against the Jewish people throughout history in the name of Christianity.…We have sinned against God and against you.… To you we owe much.… Through you, God gave us the Holy Scriptures, and because of this we have a heritage, a destiny, a hope and a compass for living.…What a treasure you are in the sight of our God! You are His chosen and the apple of His eye.…"
But despite the fact that Israel was built (and continues to live) off of handouts from Christian countries—principally the U.S. and Germany—and for all the inherent groveling and breast-beating that this mea culpa was meant to convey, it obviously did not "cut the mustard" in improving Christian/Jewish relations in Israel, the birthplace of Jesus Christ and the 2,000-year-old religion created in His name.
Besides the fact that Israel has now become a haven for international gangsters—meaning rampant prostitution, drugs, human trafficking and money laundering to name a few—there are other indicators surrounding Israel's political and social character as well that show she is anything but friendly to the morals and precepts of Christian teachings. Christian churches that were not taxed are now being sent heavy bills. Media outlets featuring Christian programming on television and radio are having their license renewal applications rejected.
More telling though is the fact that physical attacks on Christians, their symbols and institutions continue in Israel unabated, and not by "Islamo-fascists" (so much discussed by the likes of Norman Podhoretz, Daniel Pipes, John Hagee, Bill O'Reilly, et al.) but rather by a more fanatical sect that has nursed a hatred for Christianity since its inception, the people who collectively call themselves "the Israelites" and whom Christians are told to "bless."
Pastor Hagee has been an avid supporter of the state Israel since his first visit there in 1978. "I went to Israel as a tourist and returned home a committed Zionist," he said. His book says that Jesus did not come to Earth to be the Messiah. In what appears to be a growing trend these days, physical attacks on Christians, their churches and symbols are beginning to show a marked rise in Israel.
For nearly a century, since the invasion of Palestine began, Christians of all denominations have suffered bombings, shootings, arsons and wanton acts of senseless destruction of their sacred properties—and all of it by a horde of Marxist/atheist invaders from Eastern Europe calling themselves "God's chosen." From the moment they arrived—announcing to the world "We're baaaack" with all the fanfare that their grip over the Western media afforded them—they picked up where their alleged ancestors left off in attempting to erase the name of the hated Jesus from the Holy Land.
Mimicking the same kind of behavior their Bolshevik cousins
exhibited during and after the takeover of Russia and using the
"fog of war" as a smokescreen for their actions, Christian
church properties have been bulldozed, blown up or burned down
on numerous occasions, all of it chalked up to "collateral
damage." Since the Jews of Europe began reconstructing the
nation that was destroyed some 2,000 years ago following the predictions
of Jesus Himself, priests, pastors, nuns, churches,
cemeteries, Bibles, icons, stained-glass widows, all were fair
game as far as the Zionists were concerned when it came to maintaining
its exclusively "Jewish character."
Not long after Israel declared her statehood, legislation was passed outlawing Christians trying to convert Jews to the religion of Jesus Christ with a 5-year prison sentence attached for good measure.
Now, no longer limited to impersonal attacks done in the middle of the night with minimal chance of being caught, Jews (and particularly those in Jerusalem, the city of Jesus's sham trial and murder by his enemies) are coming out in the open now and displaying their ancestral hatred for all things Christian without any evident fear of what kind of consequences might follow.
Out-in the-open physical attacks on priests, pastors, statues and Christian processions by extremist Jews is now more the norm than the exception. A recent case involving a Greek Orthodox clergyman involved a skullcap-wearing elderly Jew tapping on the window of the clergyman's car and when the man opened his window, the Jew spat in his face, something becoming a daily occurrence in Israel. Only a few days later, a yeshiva student spat at the cross as it was being carried by the Armenian archbishop during a procession near the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem and did so under the watchful eye of his rabbi, who did nothing to impede him.
In another recent case, 13 bishops from Austria were barred from praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall by a rabbi who oversees the site. The Christians refused to remove the crosses around their necks, which the rabbi considered "insulting." Other Christians who have seen the increasingly bold and violent nature on the part of Israel's Jews toward them and their faith in a manner up close and personal say that during Jewish religious festivals such as Purim (celebrating the hanging of Haman and the execution of 75,000 Persians) they stay inside and lock their doors, fearing their lives are in danger amid a band of rowdy, drunken and violent Jewish extremists.
One would think that, with all the lecturing taking place during the last half-century by organized Jewish groups when it comes to "hatred" and "intolerance" (not to mention the undeniable influence these groups have wielded in getting "hate crimes" legislation passed in most Christian countries), there would be more concern paid for this growing trend in the "headquarters" of Jewish values in the world—Israel.
With all the fear-mongering to which Christians are subjected on a daily basis when it comes to Islam that is inaccurately portrayed as inherently anti-Christian by the likes of John Hagee, Pat Robertson, Joseph Farah and other neo-cons, you would expect some attention given to this alarming business taking place in Israel. And yet, not a peep from any of them. Attacks on Christians by Jews Increasing in Israel, Palestine
A former schoolteacher fluent in several languages, Mark Glenn spoke at the AFP-TBR conference on the Middle East panel. He is a prolific writer whose provocative essays have been published worldwide. He and his wife Vicki and their eight children maintain a ranch in northern Idaho. His book, No Beauty in the Beast, can be ordered from TBR BOOK CLUB (1-877-773-9077) for $28 ppd.
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NEW YORK—Ellen Mariani is vowing to appeal a federal court order "preventing her from having a direct role in the 9-11 wrongful death action arising from her husband's murder on United Airlines Flight 175," her new attorney, Bruce Leichty of California, informed American Free Press.
Flight 175 was flown into the south tower of the World Trade Center, according to the official account of the 9-11-01 terrorist attacks.
This order of Judge Alvin Hellerstein has temporarily derailed Mariani's attempt to challenge the mysterious settlement of her deceased husband's claims against United Airlines, said Leichty. But he vowed that his advocacy on behalf of Mariani's interests has just begun, and said that Hellerstein's order shows "blatant prejudice" against the 9-11 widow.
"This New York federal court is supposed to be one of the most distinguished in the nation," he said, "but it doesn't take any more than a glance at this order to see its utter intellectual bankruptcy, and one could reasonably suspect that the true motivation for the order is to suppress Ellen Mariani's ongoing efforts on behalf of 9/11 truth."
Mariani retained Leichty to advise her on a tangled legacy of ineffective and disloyal legal counsel and to protect her remaining interests as both a beneficiary of her husband's estate and a 9-11 truth advocate, according to Mariani. Shortly after retaining Leichty, she was informed that the claims of her husband's Estate had been settled without her participation. (AFP Oct. 1, 2007).
"The timing was very curious," Leichty informed AFP. "Judge Hellerstein also took the unusual steps of closing both the case that Ellen had filed in 2001—the first wrongful death case filed against the airlines after 9-11—and the case that had been filed by her stepdaughter, Lauren Peters."
These two cases were closed subject to the condition that any party who objected by October 31 could ask the judge to restore them to his calendar, Leichty noted. When Mariani objected, however, she was rebuffed. Federal court cases are usually not declared "closed" at all until there is either a judgment or a dismissal, which can be entered after a settlement. But Leichty said neither a judgment nor a dismissal was entered in the more active of the two Mariani cases that Judge Hellerstein closed.
"When I saw the judge's order closing these two cases and spoke with Ellen, and realized that she had not been provided any details on a settlement, we both smelled a rat," Leichty said. He then recognized that Judge Hellerstein might not regard Mariani as a party in her deceased husband's action. She is a beneficiary of her husband's Estate, but the administrator of that estate has the responsibility for litigating Ellen's late husband's claims.
Leichty filed a motion on Oct. 31 with the cooperation of New York lawyer Carl Person, to explicitly make Mariani a party in the pending New York 9-11 litigation. That motion for intervention was backed up by Mariani's testimony that she was deprived of a voice in the litigation in 2004, and by evidence that Mariani's own claim for her loss of spousal consortium had nonetheless survived intact and needed to be protected by direct intervention.
But, as Leichty noted, Judge Hellerstein on Nov. 5 ruled that the intervention motion would be denied on the sole ground that Mariani was not a party. "This is circular logic and nonsense since all intervention motions are filed by persons who are not yet parties," Leichty pointed out.
According to Leichty, Mariani has the option of appealing this order and also of protesting the way that the estate's claims have been handled in New Hampshire Probate Court, where Mariani says that the current administrator has squandered his opportunity to get at the truth about 9-11 and also the value of her claims and those of the estate, by never seriously preparing for trial.
"The New Hampshire administrator is a lawyer named John Ransmeier who has repeatedly turned a blind eye to Ellen's requests since his appointment," Leichty alleged.
Mariani was essentially forced to step down from her position as administrator of the estate in 2004 under "highly questionable circumstances" after she began investigating possible U.S. government complicity in the events of 9-11 and the cover-up, said Leichty. At the time, her attorney in New Hampshire was a prominent former gubernatorial candidate, Paul MacEachern, who suggested Ransmeier as a replacement administrator.
"First MacEachern failed to protect Ellen, but even after that, based on a clear order of the New Hampshire Probate Court, John Ransmeier had his own duty to join Ellen as his co-plaintiff or to at least protect her consortium claim, which he has failed and refused to do," alleges Leichty.
Instead, according to Leichty, Ransmeier's attorneys entered into an engagement agreement without Mariani's consent with Donald Migliori, an attorney from a large South Carolina law firm, Motley Rice, which employs one of Mariani's former attorneys as a 9-11 plaintiffs' litigator—former George H.W. Bush Department of Transportation appointee Mary Schiavo.
Mariani had accused Schiavo, among other things, of convening a secret meeting with defendants' counsel without her knowledge, after which Schiavo terminated Mariani as a client. Schiavo has the highest security clearance permitted to plaintiffs' attorneys in the 9-11 litigation.
According to Leichty, his complaints about this conflict of interest "have fallen on deaf ears."
Leichty says that the estate and its attorneys have confirmed to him that there is nothing yet in writing—about 12 weeks after the alleged settlement—to show that the case of Mariani's deceased husband has indeed been settled, except for a single line written by attorney Migliori.
Leichty also discovered that when Migliori purported to settle the case for the estate, Migliori was the last remaining "plaintiffs' liaison" attorney in the consolidated New York litigation—and the liaison attorneys had assumed responsibility for conducting any trials required.
Migliori told Judge Hellerstein that he settled 13 other cases along with Mariani's.
"Speaking as someone who has both tried and settled cases, the circumstances raise the question about what kind of pressure Ransmeier and Migliori were under to agree to whatever settlement the airline and security company defendants were offering at the time," said Leichty.
While Ransmeier is defending the [undisclosed] value of the settlement, Leichty and Mariani say the proposed amount is much smaller than what one would expect from a wrongful death action arising out of an event as epic as 9-11.
Hellerstein has said during the 9-11 litigation that he does not favor trials but that plaintiffs should settle and "move on" with their lives, Mariani observed. "Money is the universal lubricant," he was quoted as saying at one hearing.
Leichty believes that the litigation in Hellerstein's courtroom has been stacked against truth advocates from the inception, because much of the evidence discovered is subject to confidentiality orders, or has been kept from view by the government by being labeled "sensitive security information," and also because Congress capped the liability of the airline and security company defendants at the amount of their insurance policies.That in turn has created "a limited pool of money for claimants, who have reason to fear that if they wait for a trial, the pool will be exhausted," said Leichty, who added that only law firms with the ability to finance the huge cost of the litigation could meaningfully participate—and for that reason they also have a built-in incentive to settle rather than risk trials.
Leichty said that the plaintiffs' attorneys, including Mariani's attorneys, have not argued the constitutionality of the secrecy and cap provisions as they should have.
"The probate administrator may still need Ellen's consent to finalize his settlement, so she is not powerless," added Leichty, "but the hour for truth advocates is late."
Mariani has resisted pressure to simply "play along"—at considerable cost to her and at some future risk, noted Leichty.
Mariani said she is dependent on the efforts of 9-11 truth advocates to continue battling the various elements who would like to "buy off gadflies" and sweep the events of 9-11 under the rug forever.
"I will never give up," said Mariani. "With enough support, I intend to do whatever I can to get to the truth of what happened to my husband on September 11, 2001, and to hold accountable all of those responsible."
For those who would like to support Mariani's ongoing efforts, please send letters of support and donations to Ellen Mariani, P.O. Box 2792, Parker, CO 80134.
Mark Anderson can be reached at truthhound2@yahoo.com.
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Dec. 16 - the anniversary of the 1773 Boston Tea Party - is the next planned "money bomb" for the Ron Paul for President campaign, which keeps getting booster shots despite a hostile media that xould prefer not having to report the facts.
Rep. Paul (R-Tex.) won the Virginia Republican Party of Virginia's straw poll by a large margin Dec. 1, receiving 182 votes, followed by former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson with 112 and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with 51. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani had 43, Sen. John McCain of Arizona 23, Rep. Duncan Hunter of California 19 and Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado four.
The poll highlighted a weekend where more than 600 Virginia Republicans gathered to plan strategy for the 2008 election campaign.
"I urge you to vote Ron Paul because he is the only candidate that the founding fathers would claim as one of their own," said lawyer Chris Kachouroff. "Do you remember what it meant to have the conscience of a conservative?"
Paul would be the first to reject foreign support, but he won a global poll in spite of himself. A website that has collected more than 72,000 votes around the world found that vast majority would elect Paul if they could influence the election. Of 72,566 votes cast around the world, Paul got more than 50% with 36,902. His nearest rival was sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) with 14,934.
Paul's Nov. 5 one-day fund-raising total of $4.2 million was "the largest primary fund-raising in the history of political campaigns," according to Rep. Paul's fund-raising manager Jonathan Bydlak.
Bydlak, speaking in Washington, said it also was the "largest GOP online day" for fund-raising. Paul's funds came from scores of donors, including 17,396 new ones on Nov. 5. According to the Paul campaign's own figures, $4 million of the total was raised online, with the remainder received through other means.
Some initial corporate media reports gave the impression that all the money was raised online. And while many of those reports said the money came from 37,000 individual donors, the actual number for Nov. 5 was 36,672. But since some individuals made more than one donation, the total number of donations for Nov. 5 was 38,869.
As Paul, a 10-term Texas congressman running on the Republican ticket, dominates the other presidential candidates from both dominant parties in cyberspace and raises that kind on money in a single day, the big media cannot help but notice.
Paul, having appeared recently on NBC's highly popular Jay Leno Show, also recently received considerable national coverage on NBC's Nightly News, in Associated Press articles and in other big media outlets, print and broadcast - some before but mostly after Nov. 5. While many still call him a "dark horse" and a "long shot," his viability is getting harder and harder to ignore. Another money bomb could truly make Paul a force to reckon with.
Michael Cornfield, a political scientist who studies Internet campaigning, was quoted by the Neo-conservative Washington Times as saying, "That's going to be big. If you do something once, that gets everyone's attention. If you do something twice, you've got a movement.
The Times in a Nov. 19 piece online, acknowledged the upcoming fund-raising day: "When some Paul supporters called for a mass-donation day on Nov. 5, the British Guy Fawkes holiday, taking their lead from the "V for Vendetta" movie, the campaign was fine with standing back and watching the money rolling - more than $4 million in one day. Supporters have vowed to try to top that figure with Tea Party ‘07 timed for Dec. 16, the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party."
This reporter, speaking in Dallas at the Peace, Justice & Freedom Conference cosponsored by AFP and Freedom Law School, said "The Paul campaign shows what happens when people hear unfiltered facts and logic, some for the first time. Let me clarify: By running on the Republican ticket and therefore getting a platform he otherwise would no have, Paul is something akin to a freelance news commentator. After all, he's one of the few congressmen who writes a column. So, he already is an established commentator.
"But something's vastly different now, and for the better. Having set an all-time primary fund-raising record of $4.2 million on Nov. 5, Paul has become a big-money candidate who has been on Jay Leno and other high profile media outlets; thus, we now have a ‘constitutional commentator' who's allowed to say what regular news commentators are not allowed to say - and he is saying it to millions of people. So the Paul campaign - which is uniting a growing mass of people under the Constitution - is a perfect example of what happens when large numbers of people finally get to hear information that is normally restricted....
"But the rel kicker is that these millions of people,
for the first time ever, are hearing ‘heretical' things like
abolish the privately owned and controlled Federal Reserve. Abolish
the income tax. Stop intervention in other people's wars around
the globe. We can conclude fairly safely that the American people
would react in a similar manner to a steady diet of unfiltered
news if and when enough of them are allowed to hear it and read
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Congress has much to do and little time before returning home to wait for Santa Claus, and many Christmas gifts will be in the form of pork. "Must pass" legislation includes 11 of 12 annual appropriations bills and a "patch" on the Alternative Minimum Tax. The "can wait" list incluses the energy bill, Iraqi war "bridge" funding and the farm bill.
But with the Iowa caucuses less than a month away, five democratic and one republican senator will be absent much of the time running for president. They have already warned Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) they will miss most of the debates and some of the votes. Democrats can normally count on a 51 to 49 majority, assuming Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) votes with his former Democratic comrades except on war issues. But republicans will have an effective 48 to 47 majority when all presidential candidates are on the trail.
The likely outcome is bundling these spending bills into a single "omnibus" measure packed with pork. In picking through the final outcome, you are sure to find biking trails and similar vital "earmarks."
Reid said he's in no hurry to put the "patch" on the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT), a paralled tax system enacted in 1969 to assure that 155 super-wealthy families would pay at least some income taxes every year. But inflation, after 38 years, means the tax now hits 23 million more families, mostly middle class. Instead of revising the legislation and having it automatically adjust for inflation - as it is with lawmakers' own opulent salaries and in Social Security - Congress keeps "patching" the law.
But Reid said he would put the complicated and controversial
farm bill ahead of the "patch," which likely would pass
quickly on a voice vote. Reids leisurely approach to the AMT will
mean serious delays in the refunds for 6.7 million taxpayers,
the IRS warns, because it will take weeks to reprogram their computers.
If Congress delays until just before Christmas, the number of
postponed tax returns would reach 15.5 million.
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Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga, who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio, has told Italy's oldest and most widely read newspaper that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad, and that this was common knowledge among global intelligence agencies. In what translates awkwardly into English, Cossiga told the newspaper Corriere della Sera:
"All the intelligence services of America and Europe…know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part … in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Cossiga was elected president of the Italian Senate in July 1983 before winning a landslide election to become president of the country in 1985, and he remained until 1992.
Cossiga's tendency to be outspoken upset the Italian political establishment, and he was forced to resign after revealing the existence of, and his part in setting up, Operation Gladio. This was a rogue intelligence network under NATO auspices that carried out bombings across Europe in the 1960s, 1970s and '80s. Gladio's specialty was to carry out what they termed "false flag" operations—terror attacks that were blamed on their domestic and geopolitical opposition.
In March 2001, Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony, "You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple: to force … the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security."
Cossiga first expressed his doubts about 9-11 in 2001, and is quoted by 9-11 researcher Webster Tarpley saying "The mastermind of the attack must have been a sophisticated mind, provided with ample means not only to recruit fanatic kamikazes, but also highly specialized personnel. I add one thing: it could not be accomplished without infiltrations in the radar and flight security personnel."
Coming from a widely respected former head of state, Cossiga's assertion that the 9-11 attacks were an inside job and that this is common knowledge among global intelligence agencies is illuminating. It is one more eye-opening confirmation that has not been mentioned by America's propaganda machine in print or on TV. Nevertheless, because of his experience and status in the world, Cossiga cannot be discounted as a crackpot.
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AFP correspondent Michael Collins Piper has just released the
first book ever to address the danger the world faces from what
he calls "the problem of Israel"—in particular,
the existence of Israel's huge arsenal of atomic weapons of mass
destruction.
Mike's book—200 fact-filled pages, fully 30 dynamic chapters—is entitled The Golem—Israel's Nuclear Hell Bomb and the Road to Global Armageddon.
Where does the strange title of the book come from? What is a golem? Why in the world would Piper ever select a title like this? Actually, as you'll see in a moment, the title is both appropriate and frighteningly profound.
You see, in Jewish lore, a distinguished rabbi magically conjured up out of clay from the earth a brutish creature—the Golem—that the rabbi dispatched upon the world to vanquish the enemies of the Jewish people.
According to the legend—which later inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein—the Golem got out of control and proved even a threat to Jewish survival. In fact, a most real (and dangerous) Golem exists on our planet today.
Cast out of the element uranium, this Golem is—as Israel's founding father, David Ben-Gurion, described it—Israel's "sacred" nuclear weapon, the primary source of trouble in the precarious realm of atomic proliferation.
The nuclear "Golem" is the bizarre and dangerous cornerstone of Israel's national security policy. Development of a nuclear arsenal was the foundation of Israeli policy from the beginning.
In The Golem, Piper examines not only the fanatical nature of this nuclear policy, but also the ongoing danger of political and civil instability in Israel where anti-Christian and anti-Muslim forces are rising to power.
In Israel today the strange and frightening Talmud based legend of the Golem remains a much-celebrated force in popular culture, inextricably linked to Israel's national security mind set and thinking. There is even a popular cartoon strip, featuring a super hero known as "the Golem," who is said to have spawned when an Israeli was exposed to nuclear radiation from Israel's officially "non-existent" nuclear weapons program. And now this "Golem" is on the loose, defending Israel from its enemies.
Piper's new book is also a comprehensive overview of the role in which Israel and its lobby in America manipulated the United States into the disastrous no-win war in Iraq and how, even today—despite the recent National Intelligence Estimate which says that Iran abandoned its nuclear program in 2003—Israel and its lobby are still pushing the United States into a war against Iran.
No review of this fantastic new work can do it justice. You need to read this—the one book that could help stop Israel from getting the United States—and the world—involved in a horrifying global holocaust .
To get your copy of this new book from Piper—which is flying off the shelves at AFP—send $25 to AFP, 645 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, #100,Washington, D.C. 20003. For those of you who send $50 or more, Piper will personally inscribe and number your own copy. Include a neatly printed sheet with the text and name you'd like Mike to use on your inscription. For even faster service, call AFP at 1-888-699-NEWS toll free and use Visa or MasterCard.
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An Open Letter to Neocon Mouthpiece Michael Medved From AFP Correspondent Michael Collins Piper:
Dear Mr. Medved:
On one of your recent radio broadcasts over the Salem Radio network, you twice made the false and malicious allegation that American Free Press is "the voice of the American Nazi Party."
I will not belabor the matter by going to any effort to refute this outrageous lie—and that is precisely what it is—because I know that you know that it is a lie.
You made this charge in the context of an equally invidious attack on Congressman Ron Paul whose weekly Internet column is republished from his congressional website each week as a public service by American Free Press.
You know full well that the congressman does not "contribute" this column to AFP just as you and others who have made this charge know full well that AFP does not pay Congressman Paul for the use of his column, nor do we contribute financially to his presidential candidacy.
Unfortunately, your vicious lies have been picked up and repeated by other nationally syndicated columnists, such as Mona Charen, and have been given widespread distribution on the Internet.
Many people believe your fabrications. These lies are damaging not only to American Free Press but also to Ron Paul and to all good Americans who support our newspaper and who support Ron Paul.
While you promote yourself as a "lovable conservative curmudgeon" who is a voice for American patriots, history shows that you are no more than another propagandist for the so-called "ex-Communists" who are now posturing as "neo-conservatives."
Your evil works are contributing to the demise of our American Constitutional Republic and are harmful to America's position in the world today. In my personal estimation, Mr. Medved, you are a traitor.
Although any impartial, honest jury would certainly find your allegation that American Free Press is "the voice of the American Nazi Party" to be libelous and damaging, we here at AFP recognize the futility of trying to get the case before a jury, considering the nature of the American court system today.
Therefore, we are taking matters into our own hands. Rest assured that in the weeks and months ahead we fully intend to bring your ugly record to the attention of as many good Americans as possible and, once and for all, put an end to the conspiratorial aims of you and your corrupt neo-conservative cronies before your agenda brings the world to destruction.
And, by the way, should you be willing to discuss your allegations publicly in an open forum, this is my invitation to you to join me on my nightly radio talk forum on the Republic Broadcasting Network at republicbroadcasting.org on the Internet. The show is broadcast from 8:00 pm to 9:00 p.m. weeknights.
If you are so confident in your assertions, why not come aboard? I'll be waiting to hear from you.
Sincerely,
Michael Collins Piper
AFP Correspondent
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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has been asked to intervene to stop the Chinese from acquiring a stake in 3COM, an American company that protects classified U.S. intelligence networks.
The former Massachusetts governor is believed to have enough clout to dissuade the major hedge fund he founded, Bain Capital, from merging with Huawei Technologies to buy 3Com. The sale would give Bain 80% of 3Com with 20% going to Huawei. When the $2.2 billion merger was first announced in September there was a whispering campaign in Washington that the deal presented a risk to the U.S. intelligence but little was said publicly. Since then, there has been a clamor for Romney to use his influence to persuade Bain Capital to pull out of the merger. He was CEO of Bain Capital until 2002 when he became Massachusetts governor. However, his tax returns show that he and his family earned $6 million in 2006 from holding in 30 Bain Capital funds.
His fellow presidential candidate, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), has publicly condemned the merger and has called on Romney to exert his influence on Bain, pointing ut that Romney received considerable financial support for his presidential campaign from bain principals. In Hunter's view, the deal would place sensitive U.S. intelligence networks at risk, especially when it is clear China is eager to acquire U.S. military technology. He added that the Chinese company at the center of the controversy was "closely aligned with the Chinese government."
While that issue was all but ignored when the merger was announced several months ago, two factors have forced it into the public domain. One is the presidential campaign and the other is a deteriorating relationship with China. On Both those levels it was perhaps inevitable that the 20% acquisition of a U.S. hi-tech security company would become a prickly issue. Hunter lost no time pointing out that, in light of china's refusal to allow the Kitty Hawk to dock in Hong Kong during recent Chinese war games, it was vital to prevent foreign companies from acquiring U.S. military technology.
But the issue is far more than a political spat between Hunter and Romney. There is a serious intelligence issue surrounding the merger. Huawei Technologies is well known to the U.S. Intelligence community because its founder, Ren Zhengfei, is a former officer in the Chinese People's Liberation army and several of the company's leading customers are Chinese government-run businesses. On Huawei files, Zhengfei is listed as having 1% ownership but the majority shareholder is not named, leading to speculation that the PLA owns and controls Huawei. It is well known the PLA controls a multitude of Chinese companies in the Hi-tech and military fields.
For almost a decade, the CIA has had its eyes on Ren Zhengfei and his company. In 2003, the agency accused him of selling high-tech security systems to Saddam Hussein. In 2003 he was hit with a copyright infrigement by the U.S. technology giant, Cisco. It claimed he had stolen patents for some of its equipment, but he denied the charge. Nevertheless, he later admitted guilt and reached a financial settlement with Cisco.
For years. Experts have been warning the Pentagon that the PLA has been developing a cyber capability for use in the opening hours of a conflict with the United States. Chinese military hackers have been trained to attack the joint communications systems of U.S. military and intelligence agencies and to cripple the computer networks on which the U.S. economy relies. Since 2000, the U.S. Navy, which has an edge on all other services in fighting a hi-tech enemy, has been aware of tens of thousands of intrusions by hackers into U.S. security systems. The Pentagon has admitted that its security systems have come under sustained assaults from probing cyber attacks originating in China.
In a world in which armies are relying more heavily on hi-tech communications and weaponry, victory in future conflicts may be measured by which side has the most secure systems and the best networks for keeping the economy safe. For those reasons, a Chinese stake in 3Com, no matter how lucrative it may be for 3Com shareholders, is now seen as a bridge too far because 3Com's expertise is in protecting U.S. networks. To that end it has had contracts with the Defense Department..
According to a classified intelligence report acquired by The Washington Times, the office of the director of national intelligence considers the merger a threat to the security of this country. It will now be up to the White House, or the Treasury Department, which deals with investment in the United states by foreign companies, to review the matter.
If there is any doubt about the risk posed by allowing the merger to go ahead, all the white House has to do is review testimony before a House subcommittee in 2001 in which nuclear arms control expert Prof. Gary Milholin accused Huawei of acquiring technology in the U.S. and then using it in ways that threatened the U.S. military. His statement was a polite way of saying that the company was deliberately purchasing U.S. technology for the PLA. In PLA manuals about future conflicts, the U.S. military is the enemy and all Chinese war games are predicated on that basis.
Romney has refused to comment on the merger, probably hoping
it will not gain much traction in the presidential race. His gamble
may not pay off if the issue is taken up by enough congressmen
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No, you won't be forced to hire a male employee who prefers wearing a chiffon V-neck evening gown or any other women's apparel in your place of business, whatever it may be. The Senate dropped its insistence that Congress pass legislation expanding hate crime protections to homosexuals and transvestites (the term refers mostly to men who like to wear girl's clothes) because it became clear that the measure would not pass the House.
The bill, sponsored by Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), was widely supported by Democrats and a few Republicans who call themselves "moderate." but because it was attached to a major bill that would have authorized more funding for the war on Iraq, many antiwar Democrats said they would oppose it.
At the same time, some democrats who call themselves "conservative" and Republicans said they would oppose ti, either because they say existing law already protects anyone from being attacked or because they believe it should not be part of a defense bill.
"Any cover to avoid passing this bill was good cover, because most House members heard the outrage from voters who opposed legislation requiring them to hire people regardless of ‘sexual orientation' and they have to run every two years, unlike senators who have six years for constituents to forget a bad vote cast in exchange for big bucks tricled through the homosexual lobby," said a ranking congressional official who remains anonymous to save his job.
"We don't have the votes" to pass the hate crime bill, another aide told The Washington Times. "We're about 40 votes short, not four or six." As a result, the hate crime provision was stricken from the bill by House-Senate conferees.
Homosexual advocates were bitterly disappointed. This bill was "the last clear chance this year for Congress to make a meaningful effort to stop hate crime vilence," said Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights.
Kennedy and sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) issued a joint statement expressing their disappointment that congressional leaders would not permit a hopeless vote on the measure.
"At a time when our ideals are under attack by terrorists in other lands, it is more important than ever to demonstrate that we practice what we preach, and that we are doing all we can to root out the bigotry and prejudice in our country that leads to similar violence here at home," they said.
The White House had opposed the homosexual amendment but stopped short of a veto threat.
Under current federal law, hate crimes include acts of violence against individuals on the basis of race, religion, color or national origin. Federal prosecutors have jurisdiction if the victim is engaged in any activity protected by the Constitution - which is about anything they want it to be.
Kennedy's bill would expand the protected class to include sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or disability. Thus, you would be forced to hire a male secretary wearing female apparel if he could type well and was otherwise qualified.
The Senate had voted in September to include the hate crimes
measure in the defense bill. The House passed a similar "hate
crimes" bill as a stand-alone measure earlier this year and
heard the outrage of voters. Then the House approved the defense
bill by a 327-27 vote that did not include the measure protecting
"cross-dressers" and homosexuals.
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The first dirty trick against Ron Paul's presidential campaign will be computer vote fraud during the late night, vote-counting hours of Jan. 8, 2008 in New Hampshire. It will be a repeat of March of 1996 when Pat Buchanan was on a Republican freight train that had to be stopped, else "The Anointed One," Bill Clinton, would certainly not be re-elected Clinton's November opponent needed to be Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.), whom he could easily defeat, and not Buchanan, whom he could not. Buchanan had to be knocked out before he gained enough momentum to win the republican nomination in July. Super Tuesday - the day eight republican western state primaries would choose their candidates - was the place to do it.
This writer was in the central time zone at 7 that evening when Dan Rather came on the Memphis channel with his news report that Bob Dole had "swept" all eight state primaries in the West, "knocking Pat Buchanan from the front runner's slot and practically securing the nomination for himself."
Votescam had already exposed this charade. Computers could be rigged to reflect whatever turnout the programmers wanted, and it was obvious that someone had done so. After all, it was only 5 p.m. in California, Washington, and Oregon; polls hadn't closed.*
Dole had landed with his campaign entourage at a pre-announced airport and there were fewer people there to greet him than got off the plane with him. And Pat Buchanan was drawing literally 10 timesas many as Dole at their respective political rallies.
The Saturday night following the Super Tuesday fraud, dole drew slightly over 300 people at a function in Los Angeles - after supposedly winning all eight states in the West. The same night Pat Buchanan spoke to 3,500 in Marietta, Ga. - after supposedly having just lost the Republican nomination. It was obvious who the people's choice really was. But remember the words of the USSR's late leader Josef Stalin: "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything."
Watch out for this: The New Hampshire primary will utilize the computer counters in 50% of the precincts while the 50% will use hand counted paper ballots. However, that half of the precincts that will use the computers will contain around 75% of the voters. This is the fertile ground for vote fraud.
The news deception it is obvious again as the 2008 primaries draw nigh. Let us show you. From the compilation of data, it was found that each candidate has a published list of supporters broken down into cities, groups, committed members, interested prospects and "meet-up" events that have been held to date. The events are usually household coffee klatches but could mean hotel or auditorium functions where the candidates actually spoke, and the groups could number any where from one to 1,000 or more people. (Please see the chart below.)
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1. U.S. DOLLAR BACKED BY NOTHING: There is something seriously wrong with the U.S. dollar, now backed by nothing. The Federal Reserve can does print as much money as it needs to inject liquidity into the economic system. The —3 money supply topped $10 trillion for the first time in October, 2005. Since then, the government quit publishing the —3 numbers, which were exposing the Fed's financial irresponsibility.
2. RECKLESS SPENDING: The U.S. government is recklessly spending us into oblivion. Congress seems to think that we can perpetually spend more money than we have. They have racked up the greatest amount of debt of any government in the history of the world. The U.S. federal debt is currently $8.6 trillion and is climbing rapidly. Including future Social Security outlays, Medicare and Medicaid payments, pension obligations, and other U.S. government promises, the U.S. government is on the hook for nearly $50 trillion more over the next 20 years.
3. COMMODITY PRICES EXPLODING: Commodity prices are exploding. Led by oil prices, the cost of virtually everything is beginning to reflect the great excess of money in our economic system. Inflation is real and its here. Gold, silver, and platinum are all in bull markets. Commodity prices continue to be fueled by extraordinary demand from Asia.
4. U.S. CONSUMERS SPEND MORE THAN THEY MAKE: The U.S. consumer is tapped out. Not only do we no longer save money as a nation, the U.S. consumer is spending more than the makes. Personal and credit card debt has mushroomed to unprecedented levels. Millions are living above their means with the use of debt, the most frightening of which is the enormous increase in mortgage debt. Countless consumers have foolishly been using their homes as collateral for giant lines of credit. Cheap money has sucked the unsuspecting consumer into mortgaging his family's future. Eventually, debt is crippling to individuals, family's and governments.
5. FEDERAL RESERVE POLICIES INFLATIONARY: The Federal reserve has tipped its hand. The Fed continues to pump money into the money supply while keeping interest rates historically low. Their greatest fear is deflation and depression - not inflation. The Fed's policies, therefore, remain highly inflationary.
6. U.S. WILL BE $1.65 TRILLION IN DEBT: The U.S. twin deficits are out of control. The over-spending by the U.S. government this year is on pace to exceed $900 billion. But wait, we also have imported over $750 billion more than we exported this year. This will create an additional $1.65 trillion in Fed debt. How long will the world allow us to remain this irresponsible.
7. REAL ESTATE BUBBLE HAS BURST: The real estate bubble is ending. In recent months, many unsuspecting investors have been lured into the real estate frenzy thinking they have the same liquidity as in other investment markets. Sadly, not only have they taken on too much debt, but they are discovering the expensive reality of carrying these excess real estate holdings (interest, taxes, gas, electric, utilities, maintenance, etc). Now that the bloom is off the rose, who will be there to buy their properties? What was exciting and temporarily rewarding on the way up is proving to be devastating and even ruinous on the way down. Real estate simply does not offer a quick and efficient two-way market - particularly when too many people are trying to sell at the same time.
8. THE CHINA FACTOR:
a. China is bidding up the price of almost everthing (commodities,
building supplies, energy, gold, etc) as it continues to build
the most modern infrastructure on the planet. Chna's insatiable
appetite for raw materials is challenging the U.S.'s ability to
acquire these same goods.
b. China is quickly becoming the manufacturing giant of the world.
Its 1.3 billion population provides a competitive, inexpensive,
alternative to the expensive workforce in the U.S.(pension plans,
labor unions, and health care programs are unheard of in China).
c. The loss of countless manufacturing jobs in the U.S. will meana
lower standard of living for those workers forced to find inferior
employment.
d. China continues to modernize and expand its military....
9. THE INDIA FACTOR: So many service jobs have been outsourced to India that it is staggering. India's workforce is highly educated and efficient - yet willing to work for a fraction of the wages here in the U.S. Again, the standard of living in the U.S. is destined to fall as it rises in India and China.
10. THE JAPAN FACTOR: As the yen continues to plummet, the
Japanese are pouring money into gold. Unlike most Americans, the
Japanese have historically bought gold when their currency or
economy showed signs of trouble. Foreign governments are no longer
eagerly buying U.S. government debt instruments. They are diversifying
out of the U.S. dollars and into the euro, foreign currencies,
and gold.
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Bilderberg tracker Daniel Estulin says he has received information from sources inside the U.S. intelligence community suggesting that people from the highest levels of government are discussing "eliminating" Rep. Ron Paul because its controlled political system is threatened by Paul's exploding popularity.
Estulin, whose information has proven accurate in the past, went public with the bombshell story Dec. 14 on Alex Jones's national radio show.
"I am getting information from my sources that there are people involved from a higher level of the American establishment who are seriously considering assassination,"Estulin said.
Estulin's past predictions about global events were accurate because of the solid information provided to him from within the Bilderberg organization. Over 18 months ago Estulin correctly made the call that the Iran invasion had been delayed and was probably off the table, which appears now to be the case following the release of the National Intelligence Estimate showing that Iran had terminated its nuclear research in 2003.
Estulin, an award-winning investigative journalist, said that he was given the information from a source that has been reliable for over a decade in providing accurate projections of future events based on what the elite were discussing in their own circles and that assassination was a serious option should the Ron Paul Revolution continue to grow.
Retired FBI Special-Agent-in-Charge Ted Gunderson, 78, has been a whistle blower since his retirement nearly 30 years ago. He said "Yes, absolutely, they won't hesitate to do it."
Rather than shooting Paul, a more sophisticated silent attack such as poisoning or the provocation of a heart attack via exotic electronic technology would be more likely, he said.
"That way the real killers are not required to put a ‘patsy' in place, such as in the Kennedy assassination," he continued. "And don't count out a plane crash or a car wreck, which has been another method of choice in recent years."
Paul himself has stated on previous occasions that he is aware of the dangers of being such a bold spokesman for freedom and understands what threat he represents to those who would stoop to anything to preserve their grip on America.
Paul acknowledged months before the Estulin report that such a threat is "real," agreeing with a number of historical examples where leaders were killed or attacked for successfully standing up to the system.
"That's right. They'll do it," Paul said, making reference to previous men of history such as Andrew Jackson, Huey Long, Bobby Kennedy and GeorgeWallace. The attack on Jackson, on the Capitol steps in 1835, was the only one of the four not to be a successful "removal" because his attacker's weapon misfired. Both Long and Kennedy died and Wallace spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair.
Estulin, author of the global bestseller Club Bilderberg: The True Story of the Bilderberg Group, described the concept as a "trial balloon from the inner core within the inner core—it hasn't gone beyond that but it is obviously on the table because I think that they are very much concerned."
Estulin said his sources were from within the intelligence community and they were telling him that "the people of the highest levels of government—not related in any way, at least visibly, to George W. Bush—the first initial conversation of what might happen if we were to do this, has taken place."
"The Ron Paul phenomenon has galvanized an entire nation," said Estulin, adding that both the people who discovered the plot and its potential protagonists are terrified at the consequences of what such an action might be because of the difficulty in judging just how severely the general public will react.
Estulin said that the conspirators, which he described as a "small circle of intimates," were discussing what the effect would be if Paul was "removed" —they are being very careful to use the word "remove" rather than more volatile terms. But Estulin was told directly that "remove" was a euphemism for assassinate.
James P. Tucker Jr., who has covered Bilderberg for more than 30 years for AFP, said he has been collaborating with Estulin for years. "We always pool the information we get out of Bilderberg, and Danny's never been wrong," he said.
Meanwhile Paul's campaign raised more than $6 million on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
See more from reporter Pat Shannan at www.patshannan.com.
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The mutilated bodies of dozens of women dumped in the Basra area of southern Iraq confirms that the British withdrawal will be followed by a rise in the brutal enforcement of Islamic rule.
The women were murdered for refusing to adhere to strict Islamic dress codes. The grisly nature of the killings was a warning to other women of what to expect if they adopted a western style of dress. The murders show that Iraq, which President Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair once declared would be democratic and tolerant, is more likely to follow the strictly religious Iranian model if Shiite militias in Basra prevail.
The British withdrawal from Basra, which is close to the Iranian border, began on Dec. 16 and was marked by a show of strength by Iraq's fledgling military. As a colorful spectacle, it masked a different reality: the Iraqi military is incapable of imposing order in Basra and its four provinces. Beginning in 2003, when Blair sent 45,000 troops to Iraq as part of Operation Telic, Basra has been ungovernable.
The moment British troops put their boots on the sands of Iraq
it was clear
the majority Shiites in the area were opposed to the occupation.
A recent survey showed that only 2% of residents approved the
British presence. If there is such a thing as not losing a war
while not winning it, the British have that distinction.
In February, before leaving office, Blair promised a phased withdrawal to avoid offending the White House. Now there are 2,500 British personnel in the Basra region and they will remain stationed in barracks until the middle of 2008. The fact is British troops rarely left their barracks in the past year and it was clear Blair's Iraq policy was a failure.
The three groups battling for Basra (which is now mostly Shiite, the Sunnis having being forced to flee under the eyes of the British) are the Mahdi army of the fiery cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the Fadhilamilitia that has close links to the Iraqi government and the Badr Brigade, a group run by the ISCI-Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq. The ISCI has the backing of the U.S. and Britain because its leader, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, often regarded as pro-Iranian, established a dialogue with the U.S. military, beginning last year.
From a U.S. and British perspective, support for one militia is driven by a strategy of divide and conquer in order to marginalize al-Sadr's Mahdi army and the Fadhila. So far, the Mahdi army has maintained a truce with the ISCI because it has U.S. support but all that could change as the battle for Basra and its provinces intensifies. In that event, the Mahdi army with its deep roots in the slums of Baghdad and Basra could win the day, creating an even bigger headache for U.S. forces and the Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki.
Al-Sadr has shown that, at any moment, he can bring tens of thousands of supporters onto the streets of most Iraqi cities. He demonstrated this on Nov. 15 when he held a march to honor his late father, the revered Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr.
The White House and the Israeli leadership believe al-Sadr is Iran's man in Iraq. The Israelis have tried to persuade Washington that Iran plans to help al-Sadr transform his militia into another Hezbollah, the Iranian supported Lebanese group that gave Israel a bloody nose when it invaded Lebanon in 2006.
Other observers say al-Sadr is not a leader like Hezbollah's Sheik Nasrallah, who is well educated and is regarded as a shrewd political and military tactician. The British withdrawal leaves Washington with no coalition of the willing. In 2008, Poland and Australia will withdraw their forces.
Richard Walker is the nom de plume of a former mainstream news producer who now writes for AFP so he can expose the kinds of subjects that he was forbidden to cover in the controlled press.
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AN ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
During the past year, AFP was subjected to a flurry of relentless attacks by a bizarre Internet-based propagandist with ties to the Zionist media empire of billionaire Rupert Murdoch. When his attempt to infiltrate his way into AFP's inner circle was foiled, he retaliated with a barrage of lies and disinformation intended to undermine AFP. Needless to say, AFP managed to weather the crisis, recognizing that this kind of retaliation and devilry on the part of the New World Order crowd can be expected.
After all, AFP and its staff have spent years exposing the misdeeds of international Zionism and its forceful and powerful allies in the American media and in its Washington power network.
9-11 COVER-UP IS UNRAVELING . . .
You know that American Free Press was the only regularly published journal—apart from valiant independent sources on the Internet, of course—that dared to challenge the official U.S. government version of what happened on the day of the 9-11 terrorist attacks. We've made a lot of enemies for doing this, but the fact is that the truth is genuinely "breaking out all over" and it's thanks to the efforts of AFP readers such as you who have widely distributed AFP's various special reports focusing on 9-11, such as "Fifty Unanswered Questions on 9-11," Debunking 9-11 and The DEA Report on Israeli Spies in America, more and more people are learning what they need to know. AFP's Phantom Flight 93, by Victor Thorn and Lisa Guliani, is the latest 9-11 related volume that we've released, and it—like the others—has proven popular. We're giving you the ammunition you need to show people the truth!
REAL HEROES . . .
And speaking of 9-11, over the past several years AFP has had the opportunity of working with two very real 9-11 heroes, William Rodriguez, the last man out of the World Trade Center's North Tower before its collapse, and respected 9-11 widow, Ellen Mariani whose husband was on Flight 175, the plane that is said to have been slammed into the South Tower of the WTC.
Both William and Ellen have boldly stood up to question the government's lies about that tragic day and they are widely respected here and abroad and the truth is that there are growing numbers of 9-11 survivors and victims' families who are joining the growing cacophony of rightfully angry dissident voices who know that we've been lied to about that tragic day.
ALERT: 9-11 DISINFO SPECIALISTS . . .
There are a few "wolves in sheep's clothing" out there who have been posing as "9-11 truth seekers" but AFP is doing its best to weed them out and keep AFP's pages clean. The bottom line is that we are having a real impact on this important issue and we intend to keep on hammering away until the truth comes out—and it will.
THE DISASTER IN IRAQ
We hate to say it, but "we told you so" about an Iraq invasion. Many of you regular readers will recall that—even before the invasion—when American Free Press first said there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that Iraq and Saddam Hussein were no threat to America—AFP actually lost a lot of readers who said that we were "anti-American" for criticizing President Bush. They accused us of "undermining the troops."
They said we were actually lending aid and support to "the terrorists"! Well guess what: we were right. Iraq has turned into a hellish, super-expensive death trap, exactly as predicted. Additionally, no weapons of mass destruction ever turned up either. Had the mainstream press and the U.S. government listened to AFP, America would not be in the mess we are in today.
AFP NEVER BACKS DOWN
We've argued from the beginning against senseless and foolish American intervention abroad, particularly in the Middle East, and reminded Americans of President George Washington's wise admonition against permanent alliances with foreign nations.
We've been called "anti-Semitic"—and even "neo-Nazi"—for pointing out that the war in Iraq was first and foremost a war that was demanded by the powerful Israeli lobby and its foreign principal, the state of Israel, and that those directing U.S. policy in the Middle East, and specifically the intervention in Iraq, were hard-line extremists guided by an "Israel First" philosophy.
We told you that these "high priests of war"—as AFP's Michael Collins Piper described them in his widely distributed book by that title—were the real enemies of America and the horrible state of America's position in the world today is a direct consequence of their intrigues.
A VISIT TO IRAN
Late last year, just after we released our 2006 annual report, AFP correspondent Michael Collins Piper followed up his September 2006 meeting in New York City with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a December visit to Iran itself. Piper was one of some 70 researchers and academics from 30 countries worldwide who attended a conference convened in Teheran in December of 2006 by President Ahmadinejad and the Iranian foreign ministry's Institute for Political and International Studies. This was the much-publicized international conference on the subject of "the Holocaust" and, as Mike pointed out in a special report entitled "What Really Happened in Iran"—published in the first issue of AFP for the year 2007—most of what was reported about that conference in the mass media in America was largely misinformation and deliberate disinformation.
CIA MEDDLING IN IRAN
The CIA in Iran is the title of an important new book issued by AFP over the past year, telling the whole ugly story of U.S. intervention in that country—right from the published formerly-secret records of the CIA itself. Americans need to know the truth about some of the less-savory ventures of our leaders and their agents-in-place and AFP didn't back off from bringing you this important story or updates on other stories that we've covered over the years.
THE ISRAELI ATTACK ON THE LIBERTY
That's a story that AFP has been covering that a lot of people would like to see just "go away." But it won't. Not as long as AFP can do anything about it. AFP correspondent Mark Glenn has been working closely with USS Liberty survivors and others (including some real insiders) to bring out continuing new revelations surrounding that tragedy, an attack by our two-faced "ally" on a barely armed U.S. naval vessel, resulting in the murder of 34 Americans and the wounding of 172 others.
TRACKING BILDERBERG
As he has done repeatedly over the past 30 years —and it's no simple task—AFP's globe-trotting correspondent-turned-editor Jim Tucker Jr. once again managed to hunt down the location of the annual Bilderberg meeting. This year Bilderberg met in Istanbul, Turkey and Jim traveled to the Middle East to report on Bilderberg's intrigue with the help of donations from AFPRC members and AFP readers.
While the American media (which is often represented at Bilderberg by officials and writers from The Washington Post) consistently ignores Bilderberg, recent years have seen increasing numbers of journalists from "mainstream" media outlets in Europe joining Jim in exposing Bilderberg's aims.
In fact, this year, as in previous years, foreign media outlets cited Jim's long history of working to drag Bilderberg into the light of public disclosure. Jim's book, Bilderberg Diary—an AFP exclusive—remains the primary source on Bilderberg.
AND THE TRILATERALISTS, TOO
Jim Tucker hasn't simply focused on Bilderberg, however. This year—as before—Jim managed to trail the less secretive (but still powerful) Trilateral Commission to Brussels, Belgium from where Jim revealed that the "TC"—a less exclusive "junior brother" of Bilderberg—called for higher gas taxes and urged a push for final ratification of a single European super-state, part of the long-standing internationalist goal of setting in place a New World Order under the control of a global elite.
Three members of the U.S. Congress participated in the Trilateral
gathering: Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), whose banker uncle,
David Rockefeller, has been a mainstay of the globalist organization,
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a staunch Zionist whose super-rich
husband has been
engaged, for years, in secretive international business dealings,
and Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) who purports to be a congressional
voice for his largely black constituency but who, obviously, has
far more elite contacts inside the Trilateral Commission.
UPROAR IN CANADA
When Bilderberg-Trilateral allied one world advocates staged a conference in Canada, to further the agenda of uniting the United States, Canada and Mexico as part of a regional unit to be incorporated into a global regime, the big money boys were in for a surprise. They were met by loud and enthusiastic protests conducted by a group of protestors, most of them college age young adults, and AFP's correspondent Jason Snow (who also happens to be AFP's webmaster at americanfreepress.net) provided readers a fascinating account of this grass-roots uprising against the would-be masters of the world. This is a sign that despite the Grand Design for global government, opposition is growing and dissent is no longer confined only to AFP readers.
HERE AT HOME
And right here at home, growing coalitions of grass-roots Americans, truck drivers and other patriots have been rallying and lobbying hard against a variety of schemes designed to advance the goal of merging the United States, Canada and Mexico. AFP's roving correspondent Mark Anderson has provided numerous reports about these good efforts, ranging from the uproar over the proposed "Trans-Texas Corridor" to the plan to sell the famed Pennsylvania Turnpike to private corporate interests—all part and parcel of the agenda of the internationalist North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) which is, in turn, a facet of a wide-ranging array of so called "free trade" consortiums that have been on the planning boards of the world plutocrats since the closing days of World War II. You can count on AFP to keep you up to date on these predatory designs aimed at diluting America's national sovereignty.
IMMIGRATION ISSUE WON'T GO AWAY
It's an issue that's hitting home all across the United States. In the old days, the only people who were "aware" of the growing immigration crisis were those living on the U.S. border with Mexico. Now, with some 20 million illegal immigrants popping up all over America—even including rural parts of the Midwest and the Northeast—the issue is coming more and more to the forefront of public debate. AFP has always been on top of this issue and we have been proud to highlight the work of Hazleton, Pennsylvania Mayor Lou Barletta who has been speaking out forcefully in defense of American rights in the face of expanding immigration, both legal and illegal, onto American soil.
AND SPEAKING OF THE SPOTLIGHT . . .
The death of former CIA officer E. Howard Hunt was followed this spring by the revelation by his sons that Hunt had admitted, in his dying days, to have been privy to a high-level conspiracy, involving elements in the CIA, to assassinate President John F. Kennedy. This proved a vindication not only to AFP but also to its good friend, veteran attorney and JFK assassination investigator, Mark Lane.
AFP ON THE AIR . . .
Although AFP doesn't have its own regular radio outlet, we have forged a good close working relationship with John Stadtmiller and the Texas-based Republic Broadcasting Network, which can be heard on the Internet at republicbroadcasting.org. Our own AFP correspondent Michael Collins Piper has been broadcasting nightly over RBN at 9 pm Eastern Time in his own one hour slot, and we understand that Mike's program is one of the most popular broadcasts on the network.
In addition, our regular AFP correspondent Mark Glenn is not only a regular guest on Mike's program, but he's also a co-host on another popular RBN broadcast, "Current Issues" with Dr. Hesham Tillawi (broadcast on Saturdays at 5 pm Eastern Time). We count John Stadtmiller, host of RBN's flagship forum, "The National Intel Report," as a good friend of American Free Press. Tune in to RBN if you can.
POPULAR VOICES . . .
Although Ron Paul and syndicated columnists Charley Reese and Paul Craig Roberts are not on the AFP staff, we're pleased to publish their work each week. And it's important to note that, in the past, both Reese and Roberts were more or less conventional conservatives with GOP leanings. However, as the situation in America has gotten worse—just as AFP's editors predicted long ago—all these men have come out swinging, daring to take on the GOP traitors who (right alongside the treacherous Democrats) are now part of the problem. And that's another sign more and more honest folks are coming around to recognize that AFP has been right on target all along.
THE RON PAUL PHENOMENON . . .
And needless to say, the public domain columns written by Dr.
Ron Paul, the outspoken Republican congressman from Texas, are
also a popular feature in AFP, which has always ranked Dr. Paul
as one of the best—if not "the" best—members
of Congress. Now that Dr. Paul is in the race for the 2008 Republican
presidential nomination, AFP takes great satisfaction in seeing
that his views (reflecting ours) are getting a vast public reception
that is winning broad-ranging support. Although the major
media is doing all it can to suppress news about Dr. Paul's candidacy,
AFP continues to publicize campaign developments, and thanks to
the Internet more and more people are now learning that Ron Paul
represents traditional American philosophy, quite in contrast
to the outlandish stances of war-mongering, big spending demagogues
such as Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and others who now claim the
mantle of being "mainstream" Republicans.
TAX REBELLION
A tax rebellion is under way (and has been for a long time)
and AFP consistently reports on it.We've told you about the case
of Ed and Elaine Brown, the New Hampshire patriots who stood up
to the Internal Revenue Service and questioned its right—under
our Constitution—to pick the pockets of industrious Americans.
Popular musician Paul Topete of the band Poker Face provided AFP
readers an on-site report on the "Live Free or Die Rally"
at the Brown home—a real inspiration. The effort
to bring the IRS into line has been going on for a long time and
AFP has been proud to report on the work of those who have dared
to do it.
THE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
The fight for freedom is being waged on many fronts. The power
of big government infringes on the rights of citizens in many
realms. Take, for example, the story AFP told this past year of
the family farmers who've been targeted by state and federal bureaucrats
for the outrageous crime of
selling raw, unprocessed milk to satisfied customers. Or our stories
about farmers and ranchers fighting to keep federal bureaucrats
off their land and out of their lives. Or AFP's reports about
concerned towns, cities and counties—and just plain people—working
to rein in federal power bullies. The list goes on and on—and
AFP always stands on the side of the people.
THOUGHT CONTROL IS ALIVE . . .
There are growing efforts to push so-called "hate crimes" and other similar "thought crimes" type measures at the local, state and federal level. Right now there are roughly 15 nations—ranging all the way from "democratic" Germany down to Australia and New Zealand—where people can be jailed for simply questioning "taboo" the "Holocaust" or government policy. AFP has ignored political correctness and has forthrightly supported the right of historians and researchers to re-examine and revise history to bring it into accord with the facts.
AND THE SECOND AMENDMENT . . .
It seems that we can hardly turn around without fanatic gun-banners trying to put the kibosh on our Constitutional right to keep and bear arms. This year, as always, AFP has always been on top of the latest news surrounding what seem like unending schemes to take away the guns of law-abiding citizens and sportsmen.
HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH . . .
Although most folks rely exclusively on conventional doctors and hospitals and over-the-counter and prescription drugs to treat their maladies, the fact is that—for thousands of years—so-called "home" remedies have often been very successful. Well, AFP has always been a supporter of freedom of choice in health care and that's why our regular special twelve-times-ayear special report insert "Whole Body Health," provides you important news and information that the medical establishment (and the big drug companies, in particular) don't want you to know about.
ENERGY ALTERNATIVES
Energy alternatives are important too. It's not only in the health arena that AFP is keeping you up-to-date. During the past year our new man in the field, Mark Anderson, has written some critical stories about developments in the field of alternative fuels. Environmentally friendly biodiesel is one good example. Americans can lessen their dependency on Big Oil, particularly foreign oil imports, and AFP's reports have been providing our readers with the news about these energy alternatives they need to know about.
OUR ELECTION SYSTEM . . .
It's one of the best in the world and, at the same time, one
of the worst in the world. AFP has been alerting you to the dangers
of computerized voting and about various good efforts to bring
back old-fashioned paper ballots and an honest, transparent vote
count. We were ahead of the curve
on this issue and we're proud of it.
In closing, we'll simply say "thanks for everything"—for all of the good support you've provided AFP during the past year. We need to know that AFP has your continuing support in the months ahead.
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The exploding $2 trillion "health" industry is peddling its witches' brews of noxious toxins as "good and "necessary." In Maryland parents are threatened with jail if their kids aren't vaccinated. Flu season has arrived and the annual "get your flu shots" propaganda is scaring people into doing what no informed person would do.
Death rates from influenza for folks over 65 have been increasing, as flu vaccination rates increased from 33% to 65%. AFP has reported on deaths from flu shots before.
If the shots don't kill you, the ingredients and preservatives will skyrocket your risk of being stricken with Alzheimer's disease by ten times, according to Dr. Hugh Fudenberg, MD, one of the world's leading immuno-geneticists and biologists with nearly 850 papers published in peer review journals. In fact, if an individual has had five consecutive flu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the years studied), his chances of getting Alzheimer's disease comes ten times higher than if they had zero, one, or two shots.
Flu shots are claimed to triple your risk of developing multiple sclerosis according to the NeuroReport, 12(4):733-737,2001.
And flu shots are also increasing your risk for even more exotic diseases including leaky gut syndrome, Crohn's disease and colitis, insulin dependent juvenile diabetes, allergies, asthma, shim allergies, eczema, psoriasis, Scleroderma, Lupus, MS, Grave's disease (thyroid), glomerulonephritis (kidneys), ADHD, learning disabilities, Mental malfunction, Parkinson's disease, Lou Gehrig's disease, Guillen Barre, and seizure disorders as well as Bell palsy and macrophagic myofasciitis (MMF) - rapid muscle tissue degeneration, etc.
Coming down with the flu after receiving the shot becomes more likely too, as the vaccination weakens your immune system, making you more vulnerable to the illness. According to Dr. Tom Jefferson, an epidemiologist, "The vaccine doesn't work very well at all (0-28%) for folks over 65."
WHAT'S IN THE SHOT?
Would you ingest, or inject into your blood, rotten eggs? Or caterpillar dells? Many vaccines contain these ingredients and more including african green monkey kidney cells (linked to AIDS), human cells from aborted fetal tissue, animal DNA cultured in aborted fetal cell linings, pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain, guinea pig, dog kidney, cow heart, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg, calf serum and sheep blood. The egg products many times carry potentially deadly bacteria.
And we haven't even mentioned these toxic ingredients: Thimerosal (49.6% mercury. Linked to autism, brain injury and autoimmune diseases); aluminum (linked to Alzheimer's); formaldehyde (known carcinogen, used to embalm dead bodies); anti-freeze (toxic); coal tar (carcinogenic); non-oxynol (used to kill or stop growth of STDs); Octoxinol 9 (a spermicide); disodium phosphate dodecahydrate; magnessium Chloride hexahydrate; betapropiotactone (a disinfectant); potassium dihydrogen phosphate; gentamicin sulphate; sodium deoxycholate; polyethylene glycol p-Isooctyphenyl ether; MSG (a neurotoxin associated with many symptoms; including autism, glaucoma, migraines); Latex (allergen); Triton X-100 (a detergent); Polysorbate 80 (a potential carcinogen); neomycin; polymyxin B; gentamicin; etc, etc.
This vaccine sludge, after it was infected with three different viruses (influenza B and two influenza A strains) bred in swine and chickens in China - scraped from the throats of infected pigs birds or humans - was selected by government bureaucrats on the basis of an "educated guess."
No wonder 70% of doctors and nurses do not get annual flu shots.
Who benefits from flu vaccines? Big Pharma and the politicians
to whom they contribute.
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Many people will remember a famous TV ad where a woman races to her washing machine, fabric softener in hand, only to arrive just as the wash ends. This woman who "forgot to add the fabric softener" was actually doing herself and her family a favor.
Although they may make your clothes feel soft and smell fress, fabric softener and dryer sheets are dome of the most toxic products around. And chances are that the staggering 99.8 % of Americans who use common commercial detergents, fabric softeners, bleaches, and stain removers would think twice if they knew they contained chemicals that could cause cancer and brain damage.
Fabric softeners and dryer sheets with scents like April Fresh and Summer Orchard add toxic chemicals to your laundry and, consequently, your body.
Here is a list of just some of the chemicals bound in fabric softeners and dryer sheets:
• Benzyl acetate: linked to pancreatic cancer
• Benzyl alcohol: upper respiratory tract irritant
• Ethanol: on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA)
Hazardous Waste list and can cause central nervous system disorders
• Limonene: known carcinogen
• A-Terpineol: can cause respiratory problems, including
fatal edema, and central nervous system damage
• Ethyl acetate: a narcotic on the EPA's Hazardous Waste
list
• Camphor: causes central nervous system disorders
• Chloroform: neurotixic, anesthetic and carcinogenic
• Linalool: a narcotic that causes central nervous system
disorders
• Pentane: a chemical known to be harmful if inhaled
So how could products with pretty names like Soft Ocean Mist, Summer Orchard and April fresh be so dangerous?
The chemicals in fabric softeners are pungent and strong smelling so strong that they require the use of these heavy fragrances (50 times as much fragrance) just to cover up the smells. Furthermore, synthetic fabrics, which are the reason fabric softeners were created in the first place. Do not smell good either when heated in a dryer or heated by our bodies ... hence the need for even more hefty fragrances.
In other words, remove all the added fragrance that endears people to fabric softeners and - like the cliché wolf in sheep's clothing - the real smells of the chemical-laced fabric softener and the synthetic fabrics they were designed around may prompt people to shoot their laundry machines and be done with it.
The Static Eliminator's woven sheets that you place in your dryer take static cling out, and soften fabric without any toxic chemicals whatsoever – plus they are incredibly economical, as one box can be used to maximum effectiveness 500 times. (Or go for the super-economical double-pack for 1,000 loads.)
It is completely non-toxic: The technology is based on the weave of the cloth so it is chemical-free. It is economical. Each box is effective for 500 loads of laundry. It is safe for infants, allergy sufferers, eczema sufferers, and the chemically sensitive.
Even if you don't feel the effects of these chemicals today, they can affect you gradually over time, and children, whose systems are still developing, are particularly at risk. There's really no reason to expose yourself to these risky chemicals when natural alternatives exist. Not only are they safer for you, your family and the environment, but they're much more economical too.
Check out your local health food store for a natural fabric softener that uses a natural base like soy instead of chemicals.
It's likely that fabric softeners and dryer sheets aren't the only toxic products in your home. Many household products that consumers regard as safe are also full of toxic chemicals.
This article was reprinted with the permission of the SixWise.com
Security &Wellness Newsletter. Access their website at SixWise.com
for more interesting alternative health news.
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Ojal, Calif. - On Jan. 29, 2001, Jock Doubleday of Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc., offered $20,000 to the first U.S.-licensed medical doctor or pharmaceutical company CEO to publicly drink a mixture of standard vaccine additive ingredients.
The offer had no takers and may have been spawned by an earlier challenge in Australia by researcher Viera Scheibner, Ph.D. On Feb. 19,1999, the Medical Observer published an article by Simon Chapman, in which he issued a challenge to the anti-vaccination movement in Australia. Dr. Scheibner's response to his provocative article was to issue another challenge for Chapman to first put his poison where his mouth is. No money was offered and Dr. Chapman had been silent on the subject.
"If vaccines are such a blessing, I challenge Simon Chapman to appear on television and allow himself to be injected with all baby vaccines, adjusted to his body weight by a doctor of my choice and in my presence. Scheibner wrote to the newspaper, and went on to list the dosage of each what he must be willing to take.
"There isn't a better way to demonstrate to us that vaccines are safe and effective than by Simon taking is own medicine," she said. "After every lot of vaccines an independent medical doctor and myself would assess Simons reactions and the general state of health. Long-term reactions will be followed up for three years."
Dr. Scheibner concluded with, "If you do not publish my letter and/or Simon does not agree to this easy and safe demonstration, then it will show us all that vaccinators are dishonest, and doctors are afraid of their own medicine. In other words: put up or shut up."
Not only did dr. chapman not consent to drinking his own stuff, he didn't even respond to the letter.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), "the single best way to protect against the flu is to get vaccinated each year" and the CDC now recommends children under the age of two receive the flu vaccine.
Hundreds of news articles began appearing, and the message was clear: get the shot, get the shot, get the shot. However, there was something missing that was not appearing in any of the news articles: flu shots contain thimerosal, a mercury compound.
Thimerosal's main use is as an antiseptic and antifungal agent, but critics believe it is far too harsh on the human system to be injected and that the after effects of the mercury are everlasting.
After increased pressure from consumers, parents of autistic children groups, and government elected officials, vaccine manufacturers and the FDA have collectively agreed to begin removing thimerosal from childhood vaccines. Problem is, up until these recent recommendations, the flu vaccine was not considered a childhood vaccine.
Eight years later, Doubleday hasn't stopped. On August 1, 2006, he announced that his initial offer had been increased to $75,000. The new offer also had no takers.
Then June 1, 2007 the $75,000 vaccine offer was increased to $80,000; as of July1, the vaccine offer was increased to $85,000; as of August 1, the offer was increased to $90,000; as of September 1, the offer was increased to $95,000; as of October1, the offer was increased to $100,000; as of November 1, 2007, the offer increased to $105,000; as of December 1, 2007, the offer increased to $110,000.
Doubleday has vowed to keep increasing the offer $5,000 per month, in perpetuity, until an MD, pharmaceutical company CEO, or any of the 14 relevant members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices agrees to drink a body-weight calibrated dose of the vaccine additives MDs routinely inject into children in the name of health.
This last offer has no expeiration date unless and until superseded
by a similar offer of higher remuneration. Any time an MD publicly
advocates childhood vaccinations, on the radio, TV, in print or
in person, he should be made aware of Doubleday's offer.
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The human energy system (HES) has come under attack from a new phenomenon: the rapidly growing hazard of electromagnetic "energy pollution." Since the industrial revolution and the subsequent electronic age, the Earth's electromagnetic energy environment has become intensely polluted with artificial electromagnetic fields (EMF), unnatural radio frequencies, microwave radiation, nuclear radiation, and many other forms of aberrant energy that cause severe deviations and imbalances in the HES.
Today, there are 250 million times more artificially generated radio frequencies in the Earth's atmosphere than in 1930. These invisible but highly reactive energy waves and artificial EMF from high-voltage power lines, transformers, and home appliances have become the big unknown factor in all the vital equations of human health, and they constitute the hidden cause in many common human ailments, from cancer to schizophrenia.
This pollution is more hazardous to the human system than chemical and ecological pollution.
High-voltage alternating current power lines and transformers, which operate at 60 hertz, create an artificial EMF of 100 milligaus extending 20 meters around them. At a range of 30 centimeters from the human body, 3 milligaus has been determined to be the level of exposure to EMF above which cancer and brain damage can occur.
The types of tissues most seriously damaged by artificially generated EMF are brain tissue and rapidly developing tissues, such as those in growing children.
Common household appliances produce artificial EMF that brings
energy pollution into your home. Electric blankets create fields
of 50-100 milligaus, far above safe levels, and pregnant women
who use them experience a far higher rate of miscarriage. Electric
razors operated from a plug-in power line generate highly hazardous
fields ranging from 200-400 milligaus, a risk to the brain behind
the beard that's hardly worth the "convenience" of not
using a razor. A 10-watt fluorescent light tube produces an artificial
EMF that is 20 times stronger than an ordinary 60-wat bulb, and
in offices and school rooms lit by multiple banks of fluorescent
tubes, everyone in the room is exposed to aberrant EMF far above
the level of safety.
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